Vetted Engineering Professionals in Florida

“Engineering-focused designer who has led end-to-end design of an aerodynamic gas turbine exhaust diffuser/fairing system, working across aerodynamics, thermal, manufacturing, test, and operations. Known for improving decision-making speed and alignment by standardizing CFD/performance visualizations and restructuring complex validation workflows into more intuitive, data-readable experiences, incorporating field/inspection feedback to improve maintainability.”

“Unity/C# VR developer who shipped core UX infrastructure (a reusable Toast Manager) used for state-change/error/CTA notifications, designed to be easily consumed by other engineers via a one-line API. Has shipped on Meta Quest (Adobe Substance 3D Reviewer) and built cross-platform controller mappings with Unity Input Actions, emphasizing event-driven performance and profiling. Worked alongside a Photon networking lead to integrate gameplay/UI systems with multiplayer synchronization patterns (ghost players/drift correction).”

“Accenture engineer who owned an insurance e-application end-to-end and drove incremental releases that reduced recurring production issues. Also built a TypeScript/React (Next.js) + NestJS microservices platform using PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, and Kafka, with strong focus on decoupling, eventual consistency, and scaling consumers under load. Created a hackathon chat-based internal assistant that used live form context and documentation-grounded answers to help agents resolve customer queries during form filling.”

“Software engineer with Prudential Financial experience building enterprise Spring Boot microservices for policy/risk assessment, including integrating Python ML models via Flask and hardening services with resiliency patterns. Also led an AWS lift-and-shift modernization during an internship (EC2/ELB/Route53/Auto Scaling) and built a personal diffusion-model text-to-music project using BERT tokens mapped to Mel spectrograms.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of on-prem OpenStack/VMware and Kubernetes clusters deployed via Kubespray, including OpenStack-integrated networking and Ceph-backed storage. Built a GitOps-style Terraform delivery model in GitLab with CI/CD and security scanning (SAST/DAST/Checkov), and operated a hybrid on-prem/AWS ecommerce architecture with PCI-segmented payment systems over site-to-site VPN.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on production IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC) and PowerHA/HACMP clustering experience, including DLPAR changes, failover testing, and incident recovery. Also delivers modern cloud DevOps work—GitHub Actions CI/CD for Docker-to-Kubernetes on AWS and Terraform-based provisioning of core AWS infrastructure (VPC/EKS/RDS/IAM) with controlled rollouts and drift checks.”

Mac Tichner

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Principal Software Engineer specializing in full-stack platforms and AI integration

Miami, FL14y exp

“Serial entrepreneur and software engineer currently ideating a B2B vertical AI SaaS company with seed funding secured, using a custom-built AI agent to generate and vet startup ideas. Previously sold a software product (AskDiagnostic) into physician offices and spun an observed workflow gap into an in-house compounding solution, including a <3-minute dispensing process and supporting software for inventory, compliance, labeling, reorders, billing, and reporting.”